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Original publisher: [Washington, D.C. : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2007?] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)299167820 Subject: African American children -- Education -- Kentucky. Excerpt: ... ( performance levels ). Similarly there is a strong apparent correlation between 12 students in poverty and African American students. " Mean scores for mathematics, especially, showed high gaps, indicating the poor analytical skills and training received by African American students. The data show that while the gaps for African American students in proficient categories uniformly decreased from elementary to middle to high school, the novice gaps increased from 13 elementary to middle to high school. In particular, the Commission noted that poverty and race affected educational achievement. Students eligible for free and reduced lunches, the indicator of low income levels at the school level, were more than 20 percent behind non-eligible students in mean scores in the proficient category for reading, mathematics, and writing. In the lowest category, novice, the mean score for low-income students exceeded 10 percent in all three subjects, with mathematics and writing having steep gaps of 26 percent and 30 14 percent. Beverly Watts, former chair of the Kentucky Human Rights Commission, said that " based on ( the Commission's ) research ... the KDE ( Kentucky Department of Education ) needs to produce and maintain extensive data sets for analyzing the performance scores and outcomes. Under Senate Bill 168, which was designed to reduce achievement gaps, KDE has begun to maintain some data, but further sophistication is needed .... ( And ) while Senate Bill 168 focuses on reducing the achievement gap, it does not insist on increasing the overall achievement levels. For instance, a school district that has a low gap may also have a low overall achievement level .... Before Senate Bill 168, the Paducah Independent School District formed a bi-level task force, which has developed measures th
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